I used to work for a company that did data processing for MLM companies back in the 80s. I was exposed to a number of mid-level MLM companies.
They are driven by greed and hope. If you want to see what kind of madness that sort of greed causes, go to a sales meeting of an MLM which wants to be Amway or Herbalife. You will see madness run rampant.
Are they pyramids? They try very hard to appear as they are not, but they are close enough to be for all practical purposes. If you think that your MLM is one of “the good ones”, you just don’t know enough about it yet.
Once I wrote a bogus MLM sales plan, with as much impossible or impractical features as possible. Within a year over half of the MLMs I worked with proposed a sales plan feature that was on that list. They deal in hope and absurdity without an understanding of math.
The video covered just about everything, except how they tend to pray on certain parts of the Christian community. I watches many people get burned because they were sold on the MLM as a faith based way to make money. They pray on gullibility and trust. They use that belief in God to say that your faith will help you prosper. It does nothing of the sort.